California USA-1963: Ocean Waves Breaking On A Deserted Beach At Dusk

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

Year1963
Decade1960s
LocationCalifornia, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

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Ocean Waves Breaking On A Deserted Beach At Dusk — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1963, this vintage home movie captures a serene, deserted California beach at dusk. Gentle waves break rhythmically on the shore, their white foam contrasting with the deep blue and purple hues of the ocean and sky. Dark rocks dot the waterline, and the sandy beach stretches into the foreground under a soft, twilight glow. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color saturation, offering a nostalgic glimpse of a quiet coastal moment from the early 1960s.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124934815

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Commercial Direct license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

People visible: No
Logos / trademarks: No
Audible music: No

Flags come from automated catalog metadata, not a legal opinion. The source is an original 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie reel. For high-stakes commercial use, request a full rights review.

Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel 1112 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: knotts berry farm,zoo,san diego,mary,park,phillip
Reel-level year note: 1963
Reel-level location note: california
Date: 1963 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: California, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1960s California coastal atmosphere, documentary transitions, environmental context, or quiet memory sequences needing noncommercial home-movie beach footage.
Period detail: The frames may show early-1960s amateur color 8mm coastal footage, with no visible buildings, vehicles, clothing, signage, or landmarks to date the scene beyond supplied metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera holds a distant, steady view of surf and rocks, conveying an unstaged family-travel or home-movie pause rather than a directed scenic setup.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include twilight sky, breaking ocean waves, white foam bands, dark shoreline rocks, wet sand, shallow tide channels, and heavy frame-edge shadows.
Film character: The clip has dense 8mm grain, blue-purple color shift, soft focus, uneven exposure, and dark gate or lens-edge vignetting that read as physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a calm coastal insert, transitional pause, establishing cutaway, or reflective memory beat between family or travel scenes.
Historical context: The view documents a quiet California shoreline moment without visible development or people, offering general coastal landscape context rather than evidence of a specific event.
Research note: No people, logos, brands, or private property are visible, but users should still assess copyright licensing separately from location or property-release concerns.
Research search match: Research matches include 1963 California beach home movie, 8mm ocean waves at dusk, vintage coastal surf cutaway, and deserted shoreline archival footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other California 1963 coastal scenes, then broader 1960s ocean, beach, travel, or nature home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

1963 California 8mm frame of a deserted beach at dusk, with surf bands, shoreline rocks, wet sand, and dark edge vignetting. — Waves break across a dim shoreline with rocks offshore and wet sand in the foreground.

1963 California coastal home-movie frame showing dusk surf, low rocks, wet beach sand, and a blue-purple sky. — A quiet shoreline holds steady as waves break behind dark rocks near the waterline.

1963 California 8mm view of waves breaking at dusk, with scattered dark rocks, wet sand, and soft grainy color. — Foam lines move across the ocean while the foreground beach remains dark and empty.

1963 California beach frame with distant surf, low rocks in the water, wet sand patterns, and pronounced 8mm vignetting. — The clip ends on a still coastal view with surf, rocks, and darkened sand under twilight light.

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